Question with the noun Age of Consent

Sentences with the noun Age of Consent

Statutory rape is defined as sexual relations between one member who is above theage of consent and one who is below, even if their difference in age is insignificant.

The National Crime Agency warns people who use "hook-up" apps to meet for casual sex to ensure their partner is above theage of consent.(BBC News - U.K. News, 10 February 2014)

Schoolgirls are among 3,500 minors in Scotland to have the long-term, slow-release birth control, inserted in their arms, even though they are under theage of consent.(Daily Mail - Health, 28 August 2014)

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Britain will be allowed to keep the age of consent at 13.(Daily Mail - News, 15 December 2015)

Brussels officials have made plans to increase the age of consent from 13 to 16.(Daily Mail - News, 15 December 2015)

The prime minister rejects a call from a leading expert on public health to lower the age of consent to 15.(BBC News - Politics, 17 November 2013)

Lowering the age of consent for sex to 15 should be considered by ministers, a leading public health expert urges.(BBC News - Education & Family, 16 November 2013)

The prime minister rejects a call from a leading expert on public health to lower the age of consent from 16 to 15.(BBC News - Education & Family, 17 November 2013)

A prominent barrister specialising in reproductive rights calls for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 and an end to complainant anonymity.(BBC News - Education & Family, 8 May 2013)

Legislation introduced Tuesday will change Canadian law so all forms of sexual activity are treated the same when it comes to setting the legal age of consent.(CBC News in CBC News - Canada, 15 November 2016)

Douglas Slade and Christopher Skeaping (pictured) were members of the Paedophile Information Exchange, which openly campaigned to have the age of consent axed in the UK.(Daily Mail - News, 27 June 2016)

The age of consent — as it was three decades ago — has contributed to bringing an end to historical sex charges against a former Carlyle RCMP officer and a co-accused.(The Vancouver Sun - National, 15 December 2015)

Disgraced scoutmaster and former teacher Mark Frost, 70, was a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange who campaigned in the 1970s and 1980s to lower the age of consent to 10.(Daily Mail - News, 1 February 2017)

Adja Siny Thiaw, 27, pictured, claims she and the Newcastle United striker changed their son Ousmane's date of birth on official documents because the age of consent in Senegal is 16.(Daily Mail - Sport, 14 July 2015)

As a young journalist in 1993 Michael Gove (pictured) had reported on how the 'strange relationships within the Tory party' had thwarted moves to lower the age of consent for gay men.(Daily Mail - News, 30 June 2016)

To change the age of consent for sex to 15 would be to disperse the message that since teenagers are ‘at it’ anyway, we might as well enshrine that uncomfortable reality within the law.(Daily Mail - News, 17 November 2013)